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JBaymore wrote:FYI... I have finally located a source of consistent large volume rice husk ash here in the States. I am working on testing now. It is looking like it will undfortunately have to be ball milled before use. I have a ball mill... so for me that is no issue, but for others.... maybe it would be. Then I am going to try to get one of the ceramic suppliers (likely Sheffield) to regularly stock it...... so that I don't have to buy it by pallets.

John,Is the Rice Ash source from India still availabe...I bet a few potters in Seagrove would chip in on a pallet, and a potter or two from Boston I've talked with...I just never followed up on it, with all of my moving around the east coast....Should we start a seperate Nuka discustion thread?

Thanks Petr-here's a few shots of the kiln. This one was from the first full firing. The stacking space is ~45 cu ft. It has a Bourry Box and a 15' chimney

Inside the firebox- the bricks sticking out hold the wood charge up- air flows down through the fuel, which has a number of advantages. One of the main benefits is that ash falling from the wood is entrained into the airflow, so ash gets in the chamber very well.

Here I am goofing off with a machete during a summer firing.

Stoking. In general, this is much safer to fire than a traditional crossdraft as the wood charge insulates you from the outrageous heat/radiation at high temps. For most of the firing I operate without gloves, and the heat doesn't make your clothes smoke.

People at shows say "This must be so relaxing"- thinking we meditate at the wheel all day. In fact there's meditation in loading hour after hour without gloves in December, managing wood, chiseling broken pots off the floor, dealing with failures, getting burns.